A series of guest lectures to
CS students
A series of guest lectures to
CS students
A a new series of meetings, in which CS students and alumni (bogrim and bogrot) will meet interesting people from the industry. The speakers will be mostly computer scientists who are either founders (meyasdim), CEO's (mankalim), R&D managers (Mechkar Vepituach), or simply people who did interesting things in various companies in and out of Israel. The purpose of these meetings is to introduce you to "the real world" and help you gain lessons from the field, focusing on both success and failure stories.
The talks are scheduled on on Tuesday, 13:00-14:00 CS students, Class A109.
Questions: email to Anat Bremler-Barr bremler@idc.ac.il
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TITLE: Next generation open source company
ABSTRACT: Coridan is a ‘next generation’ open source company, with a dual licensing model that supports both open source values and the business needs of corporate customers. In this talk we shall explain how the model of open source company works, and how can an open source company - be profitable.
SPEAKER: Yuval Lubowich
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 13:00-13:45
PLACE: Class A109
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
BIO: Yuval Lubowich: Senior Research and Development Manager, responsible for the Coridan Integration & Collaboration tools. Yuval is a former R&D manager at mblaze Systems where he managed an R&D team in the Platforms Department and gained experience in product management and release of worldwide enterprise software suites. Yuval holds a B.A. degree from the Efi Arazi school of Computer Science and is currently working on his M.Sc degree also from the Efi Arazi School.
Coridan compamy: integrates and delivers data anywhere, instantly, with its open source, lightweight, peer-to-peer distributed messaging fabric. The solution enables companies to integrate the core and the extended enterprise, thereby streamlining mission critical business processes. According to Gartner Inc., 25% of the data large companies use for business analytics is flawed, due to human error and poor processes. Coridan enables instant data messaging between users, data silos, applications data, and the web, securely, seamlessly and transparently. Coridan's instant data messaging optimizes existing environments which currently are error prone and characterized by manual integration and interaction.
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TITLE: Software Engineering and Development Environment in .NET
Yosi Taguri, a .NET Technology expert from Microsoft will introduce us the .NET technology's capabilities and examine some of its usages at the marketplace. He will talk about Visual Studio 2005 from the Software Design perspective and how Microsoft came up with it. The lecture will discuss the building blocks of creating great software, while examining the Software Engineering principles implemented in it.
SPEAKER: Yosi Taguri
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004, 13:00-14:00
PLACE: Class A109
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
BIO: Yosi is a .Net Platform Mentor from Microsoft Israel. Yosi is a developer since he was 11 years old, participated in Noga project, one of the largest projects written in .NET in Israel. Prior joining to Microsoft, he developed Management and Control system centers (SHOB) for eight years at IDF.
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TITLE: “Given Imaging; The Company and Products”
SPEAKER: Raphael Rabinovitz, Ph.D., Director, R&D Projects Department , Given Imaging Ltd.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 09nd, 2004, 13:00-14:00
PLACE: Class A109
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
GIVEN IMAGING: Given Imaging's mission is to be the global leader in providing patient-friendly solutions for the gastrointestinal community.Given Imaging’s PillCam™ Capsule Endoscope offers the first effective, patient friendly gastrointestinal endoscope on the market, that is now reimbursed for most of the U.S. reimbursed population.
The Given Diagnostic System consists of the:
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PillCam™ Capsule, a patented, single-use video color-imaging capsule, which is ingested, glides naturally through the digestive tract and is naturally excreted. |
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Given DataRecorder, worn on a belt around the waist that receives signals transmitted by the capsule through an array of sensors placed on the patient's body. |
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RAPID™ Workstation, equipped with Given Imaging's proprietary RAPID (Reporting and Processing of Images and Data) Application Software that processes the data and produces a video of the small intestine images. |
BIO:
Raphael Rabinovitz, Ph.D. ,Director, R&D Projects Department Given Imaging Ltd.
1979, 1981: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical (and Biomedical Engineering) from the Technion respectively
1986: Ph.D. in Mechanical (and Biomedical Engineering) from University oh Houston, Texas
1986-1991: Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
1991-1993: Manager of Ultrasound Probes R&D, Elscint, Haifa
1993-2003: Various R&D and Marketing responsibilities at Laser Industries / ESC / Lumenis, Tel-Aviv. Last responsibility: Senior Director of Medical Division R&D
2003-present: Director of R&D Projects Department, Given Imaging, Yokneam.
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TITLE: "Hacking - Introduction to network and application security"
Introduction to network (web) and application security, overview of hacking
methodologies, security applications, and evasion techniques. Is the web
secure? how exploits are created? We will briefly cover: Session Hijacking,
Cross site-scripting, SQL Injection, Parameter Tampering, Buffer overflows
SPEAKER: Tal Achituv, security expert, IMPREVA.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 16nd, 2004, 13:00-14:00
PLACE: Class A109
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
IMPERVA:
Imperva, developer of the first Dynamic Profiling Firewall™, is focused on
providing Total Application Security – protection from Web application,
database, and worm attacks. Led by chief executive Shlomo Kramer, an
Internet security pioneer and a founder of Check Point Software
Technologies, imperva was founded by a team with academic, military, and
private sector expertise that is unique in the world. The firm maintains US
Headquarters in Foster City, California and International Headquarters in
Ramat Gan, Israel.
BIO: Tal Achituv is a security expert at IMPERVA Inc. a startup company that is
the leader of the young and growing market of application security. Tal
Achituv is currently studying for his M.Sc at the Weizmann Institute. Has a
B.A. in computer science from IDC.
Tal is a member of the Israeli Group of Linux Users since 1994, organizing
and supporting various open-source events around Israel for the past few
years, such as installation parties, introduction lectures, and advanced
lectures.
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TITLE: "Radview and the web software delivery arena"
SPEAKER: Yahali Sherman, VP technology, Radview
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 23nd, 2004, 13:00-14:00
PLACE: Class A109
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
RadView: RadView™ Software provides solutions for verifying the performance, scalability, and integrity of business-critical Web application environments. Our award-winning products simulate real-world Internet conditions and effectively test, detect, diagnose, and report on application performance. Our technology helps companies reduce costs and improve the quality of their Web applications throughout the development lifecycle.
BIO: Yahali Sherman, VP technology Radview
Over 20 years of experience in the Industry, 6 years in an intelligence unit in IDF as Team leaser and Systems analyst, 3 years Systematics ltd as systems analyst in GIS systems, and for the last 11+ years in various management positions in Radview Software serving as VP technology for the last 2 years.
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TITLE: " Tecnomatix : the Company and the Business "
The
presentation will describe the business Tecnomatix is in, the offering,
its competitive advantage and its financials
SPEAKER: Sharron Lifshitz , Vice President, Marketing & Sales of the Electronics division, Tecnomatix
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 30nd, 2004, 13:00-14:00
PLACE: Class A109
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
Tecnomatix
(Nasdaq: TCNO): A $100M/year
Israeli company that has been leading the manufacturing process planning
software arena for nearly two decades. The Tecnomatix eMPower Manufacturing
Process Management (MPM) solutions allow the leading discrete manufacturers to
design, validate, optimize, manage and execute their manufacturing processes.
Focusing on the Automotive and Electronics industries, Tecnomatix' customer base
includes all the Blue Chip customer from Ford, General Motors, Mazda, BMW and
Toyota to Dell, IBM, Toshiba, Siemens, Bosch, Samsung etc.
BIO:
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